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The American Council of Learned Societies is pleased to announce the 2019 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows. The Burkhardt program, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary, supports residential research fellowships for recently tenured faculty members. The program is made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Since the program began in 1999, it has supported nearly 250 scholars at a critical stage in their careers. The program partners with 13 national and international research centers to host fellows for year-long residencies; in 2015, ACLS doubled the number of fellowships, creating additional opportunities for faculty from liberal arts colleges, and allowing them to arrange residencies at any research university-based humanities center or academic department in the United States. With both sets of awards, fellows benefit from the experience of being in residence at institutions whose resources and scholarly communities are ideally suited to facilitate their projects.

“In 20 years, this program has supported a generation of scholars, helping them advance ambitious, far-reaching research projects and setting them on a path to leadership in the humanities,” said Matthew Goldfeder, director of fellowship programs at ACLS. “Burkhardt fellows are immersed in a new milieu, which creates opportunities for them to share their work with scholars from other disciplines, institutions, and intellectual formations. These residential research experiences not only enrich and expand fellows’ current work, but also foster long-lasting scholarly networks.”

Burkhardt Fellowships carry a $95,000 stipend and a $7,500 research budget. Designed to accommodate long-term, multi-year research projects, fellows may take the award in any of the three academic years following selection.

The 2019 Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellows are listed below and on the ACLS website.

Bryan Alkemeyer (Associate Professor of English, College of Wooster) Before the Primates: Metamorphoses, Miscegenation, and Speciesism, 1550-1750 - English Department at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019-2020

Michael S. Brownstein (Associate Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York, John Jay College) Detribalizing Epistemology - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2019-2020

Paul C. Dilley (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Iowa)The Monastic Transformation of Graeco-Roman Popular Theater: A Corpus and Theory of Ancient Christian Comedy - Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies in 2019-2020

Daniel Hershenzon (Associate Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut) Captive Objects: Religious Artifacts, Piracy, and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean - Academic Year 2020-2021

Brendan Lanctot (Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Puget Sound)Specters of the Popular in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Visual Culture - Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in 2019-20

Thuy Linh Nguyen (Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Mount Saint Mary College, NY)The Coal Mines of Vietnam: Mining, Landscape and Society (1858-1954) - Council on Southeast Asian Studies and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University in 2019-20

Ana Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College) Rights of Place: Territory, Property, and Jurisdiction in the Americas - Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania in 2020-21

Abayomi Ola (Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture, Spelman College) Lines of Dissent in Anglophone West Africa, 1950-1970 - Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2019-20

Julietta C. Singh (Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Richmond) On the Verge: Experiments in Extinction - Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University in 2019-20

Emily E. LB. Twarog (Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Hands Off: A History of Sexual Harassment Resistance in the Service Sector, 1935-2018 - The Newberry Library in 2019-2020

Wendy Warren (Associate Professor of History, Princeton University) The Carceral Colony: The Role of Prisons in the Making of America - Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science in 2019-2020

The fellowships are named for the late Frederick Burkhardt, president emeritus of ACLS, whose decades of work on The Correspondence of Charles Darwin constitute a signal example of dedication to a demanding and ambitious scholarly enterprise.

The American Council of Learned Societies, a private, nonprofit federation of 75 national scholarly organizations, is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and strengthening relations among learned societies is central to ACLS’s work. This year, ACLS will award more than $25 million to over 350 scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines.